Apple clones

[chip]

I agree with your evaluation of the current state of the industry, 
everything at work is x86 or UltraSparc, my point, and I may not have made 
this clear, is that "awfully slow" is subjective . . .
Most users will not notice a significant difference between a modern 
machine and one that is three years old . . . especially if you are using 
it as a learning system or even a low end server running linux.  Most 
peoples needs are fair less than the horsepower provided, so save some 
money . . .

FWIW,
Chip

At 08:39 PM 6/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>At 10:29 AM 6/3/2003 -0600, 
>yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
>>My YDL box is an 8500 with 768M of old style DIMM memory and a G3/266 CPU
>>and a Rage 128 card.  It's not the ultimate gaming machine, but it is snappy
>>and responsive. . . PC133 memory is not "awfully slow", it's faster than the
>>memory in my G4 Cube that I use for editing weddings in final cut . . .
>
>It really is slow compared to what's common on the x86 platform. For
>one thing, PC133 is an SDRAM standard; current x86 machines use DDR
>modules that get twice as much data across at the same clock speed.
>Second, current x86 machines are clocking memory at significantly
>higher speeds than PC133: 333MHz or 400MHz vs 133MHz for PC133.
>
>High-end x86 machines (not really all that expensive, surprisingly)
>tend to use dual-channel DDR400.
>
>Put another way, PC133 is about 3 years old.
>
>Mind you, I'm no devotee of the x86 world; it's just the painful
>truth.
>
>
>Cheers,
>   -- Bob
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